Exxon gives $1.3 million to carbon dioxide project. Exxon Mobil Corp. donated about $1.3 million to a European project to study the capture and storage of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. [News Source]

Blair to push climate change in talks with Merkel. British Prime Minister Tony Blair was to press German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday to use her country's influence to do more about climate change. [News Source]

‘Black cloud’ highlights global warming problem. Canada organizers laid out a "black cloud" of balloons in Toronto Thursday to draw attention to the "invisible problem" of global warming. [News Source]

Inquiry into claims of US global warming research censorship. Two US agencies are to investigate claims that the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming [News Source]

Web campaign urges Spaniards to switch off. Closing blinds to keep out the sun instead of turning on air conditioning can save a household more than half a tonne of carbon dioxide emissions a year, Spaniards are being told by a new campaign against climate change. [News Source]

Climate expert urges Australia to act. The author of a controversial report on climate change says Australia has all the elements which could help fight global warming and should get on with it. [News Source]

China’s largest salt lake swells. Thawing glaciers due to global warming and abundant rainfall have swollen the size of Qinghai Lake in northwest China's Qinghai Province, according to latest monitoring reports. [News Source]

Climate change threatens global economy. Climate change could cause the world's worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, warns an extensive U.K. government report. To avert such a catastrophe, the report says, greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced 60 to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. [News Source]

Blair pushes to speed up climate change talks. Prime Minister Tony Blair, armed with evidence of the disastrous impact of ignoring climate change, will talk to Germany's leader on Friday about speeding up a drive for a new international pact against global warming. [News Source]

Water problems could get ‘even worse’. Australia's water problems could become at least seven times worse unless climate change is tackled, according to the author of a major international report on global warming. [News Source]

Apocalypse now. Though dry in its delivery, Nicholas Stern's climate change report had a simple and apocalyptic message: climate change is fundamentally altering the planet; the risks of inaction are high; and time is running out. [News Source]